Now that Congress has returned from recess, the American Chemical Society (ACS) identified key areas of unfinished science legislation that if implemented would greatly benefit the U.S. economy, prepare youth for high-paying jobs and ensure America remains globally competitive.

This legislation includes: America COMPETES Act: Originally passed in 2007, reauthorized in 2010 and allowed to expire in 2013, this legislation has supported the science, technology and innovation enterprise that underpins U.S. economic growth and job creation. COMPETES funded basic scientific research through the federal agencies, fueled America’s research universities, developed discoveries and technological advances, and...

BMG LABTECH now offers an Atmospheric Control Unit (ACU) for its latest microplate reader, the CLARIOstar®, providing an ideal “walk away” solution for any cell-based assay.

BMG LABTECH has developed a new generation of its Atmospheric Control Unit - a complete solution to fully regulate and independently control both O₂ and CO₂ within the microplate reader chamber. From standard cell growth to hypoxic or cytotoxicity assays, the ACU provides the optimal environment for any live cell assay. The microprocessor-controlled unit can regulate CO₂ (0.1 - 20%) and O₂ (0.1 – 20 %) independently, making it...

IBA (Ion Beam Applications SA), the world’s leading provider of proton therapy solutions for the treatment of cancer, announces that the first patient has been treated with IBA’s compact proton therapy solution, Proteus^®ONE*, at the Willis-Knighton Cancer Center (WKCC) in Shreveport, Louisiana, USA.

The patient received Image Guided Intensity Modulated Proton Therapy (IMPT) treatment on 9 September 2014, three months ahead of schedule. IBA believes that the treatment of the first ever patient on the compact, more affordable system, Proteus^®ONE, will accelerate the take-up of proton therapy in the US and beyond. IBA’s compact system is a highly differentiated offering, not only is it smaller, less expensive, and...

SP Scientific has entered into an exclusive agreement with Physical Sciences Inc. (PSI) to distribute the LyoFlux® 200 Water Vapor Mass Flow Rate Monitor for laboratory and pilot scale freeze dryers. 

The LyoFlux® 200 is an innovative two line-of-sight tuneable diode laser absorption spectroscopy (TDLAS) based device for continuous monitoring of laboratory, pilot and production scale lyophilization cycles. Operating in conjunction with SP Scientific’s LyoStar 3 development freeze dryer the LyoFlux® 200 enables users to better understand instantaneous changes in water vapor mass flow, and thus the sublimation rate for a given product during freeze-drying. This is of ...

BGI, the world’s largest genomics organization, based in China, and The Vancouver Prostate Centre (VPC), a global leader in translational research in cancer, today announced the establishment of the BGI-VPC Joint Research Laboratory, a sequencing and translational research facility, to jointly discover and advance basic and translational programs in oncology, including personalized oncology.

The collaboration, the first between BGI and any Canadian research institution, will change the landscape of genomic and translational research across Canada and benefit patients worldwide. The BGI-VPC Joint Research Laboratory, established at the VPC facility in Vancouver and currently available for use, will apply genome research to develop new biomarkers and cancer therapies. The primary focus initially will be on bladder, kidney and...

Sophia Genetics, the European leader in Data Driven Medicine, has significantly expanded its European customer base through its first deal with the NHS in the United Kingdom and an agreement with a leading Turkish laboratory.

This follows a surge in demand for the company’s Clinical Genomics offerings among laboratories and hospitals in Germany, France and Italy, with additional customer relationships in these countries established in August. These customers now gain access to Sophia Genetics’ innovative Data Driven Medicine platform, which offers securely-hosted Software as a Service module covering the bioinformatics analysis protocol, the validation and...

Drawing upon the in-depth knowledge of its technical staff and a flexible production facility - Asynt is able to offer organizations custom specified laboratory apparatus exactly meeting the demands of their application or project.

Asynt custom services draw upon expertise in areas including high pressure reactors, heating / cooling block technology, scientific glassware, PTFE components and apparatus as well as noise and safety enclosures. As a respected international supplier of off-the-shelf pressure reactors, Asynt has the knowledge to also offer a totally bespoke solution for pressure reactors ranging from just a few millilitres to 50 litres capacity and different...

Greiner Bio-One GmbH, a technology partner for the diagnostic and pharmaceutical industries and the medical sector, is strengthening its position as an OEM developer and producer.

In recognition of the company’s growing importance as an original equipment manufacturer, a dedicated global sales organisation for OEM development and production is now being added to its BioScience, Preanalytics and Diagnostics divisions. Appropriately enough, an independent study recently confirmed Greiner Bio-One’s exceptional level of competence in OEM projects. Greiner Bio-One GmbH develops, produces and distributes...

PAC Welcomes Samuel Wong as Vice-President of Sales for Asia Pacific and Opens New Office in Shanghai.

PAC, a leading global provider of advanced analytical instruments for laboratories and online process applications, recently welcomed Samuel Wong as the Vice-President of Sales for Asia Pacific. Mr. Wong has over 25 years of sales experience in the oil and gas, marine, power generation, and transport industries. He  joins PAC from AMOT where he was the Director of Sales for Asia Pacific since 2006. In this role, he had consistent revenue growth and...

DELMIC develops and manufactures products which are focused on high performance, user friendly, integrated microscopy solutions.

In a collaborative development with electron microscope provider Phenom-World, both companies announce the launch of Delphi, the world’s first integrated correlative tabletop fluorescence and electron microscope at the 18^th IMC in Prague. DELMIC and Phenom-World announce Delphi™, the world’s first integrated correlative tabletop fluorescence and electron microscope. DELMIC produces high-performance, user-friendly integrated microscopy solutions while...

CleveXel Pharma today announces that the company has entered into a new partnering agreement with Guilin Pharmaceutical, a Chinese company located in Shanghai, regarding the development of two new products. 

Guilin Pharmaceutical, a member of Fosun Pharma, is the first Chinese pharmaceutical manufacturer approved by the World Health Organization. It is also China’s largest artemisinin based anti-malarial drug producer. Artemisinin is an active substance derived from the traditional Chinese pharmacopeia. This new work complements two other projects between the partners, which started in 2013. The purpose of the latest venture is to...

UK chemistry engineering firm Vapourtec is establishing a burgeoning market for its flow chemistry systems across India with the continued development of a distribution partnership with Mumbai-based Pi-Process Intensification.

Pi-Process Intensification have been acting as distributors for Vapourtec's R-Series systems for the past three years and will now also be distributing their E-Series system. Dr Reddy's Labs is one of a number of key customers. They recently took delivery of a second R-Series system, this time for their research lab in Hyderabad. The R-Series has a wide range of applications with more than 200 systems installed and already used...

The Right Honourable George Osborne MP joins Waters CEO Doug Berthiaume to mark the official opening of the Waters Mass Spectrometry Headquarters in Wilmslow

Waters Corporation (NYSE: WAT) celebrated the official opening of its new, custom-built mass spectrometry headquarters in Wilmslow, UK, confirming the company's commitment to innovation and the expanded usage of mass spectrometry. The facility has been designed and equipped to accelerate innovation in the field of mass spectrometry – a sophisticated analytical laboratory technology that is entrenched in our everyday lives....

With clinical laboratories increasingly turning to high throughput LC-MSMS analysis, laboratory automation specialist Tecan and RECIPE Chemicals and Instruments GmbH, a leading manufacturer of IVD/CE diagnostic products, have announced a co-marketing agreement for automation of LC-MSMS IVD kits.

Visitors to Booth #1 at MSACL 2014 EU in Salzburg, Austria, from the 2^nd to the 5^th of September, had the opportunity to discover how Tecan’s flexible Freedom EVO^® platform offers walkaway automation of the RECIPE ClinMass^® LC-MSMS Complete Kits* for the analysis of vitamin D₂/D₃ and immunosuppressants. The automated process has the advantage of eliminating the potential for manual handling errors and increasing the speed of sample preparation three-fold compared to manual protocols, significantly improving turnaround times while enhancing reproducibility, traceability and sample security....

The cross-disciplinary capabilities of Malvern Instruments’ technology are being fully exploited at Queen Mary University London.

The Zetasizer Nano, NanoSight Nanoparticle Tracking Analysis (NTA) and Mastersizer 2000 systems are all employed within the university’s multi-disciplinary lab. The instruments serve a wide variety of research groups working in areas as diverse as silica coating formulation through to tissue regeneration, demonstrating the value that Malvern’s robust technology brings throughout the scientific arena. “Our lab is part of The School of Engineering and...

Veolia Water Technologies will be showing its innovative PURELAB^® Chorus range of laboratory water purifiers at Lab Innovations

The PURELAB^® Chorus, which recently won Gold in the scientific instruments, medical devices and research equipment category of the prestigious A’ Design Award, meets all the needs of tomorrow’s pharmaceutical and biotechnology laboratories. With specific technologies to remove impurities such as RNase, DNase and bacteria as well as trace ions such as silica and boron to below detectable limits, PURELAB^® Chorus can be customized to deliver water purity from...

ZEISS and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute’s Janelia Research Campus have signed an exclusive license agreement for the commercialization of Bessel beam plane illumination microscopy, also called lattice light sheet microscopy.

Science World - the Fisher Scientific Laboratory Experience, was held on the on 2nd September 2014 at the bcc Berlin Congress Centre GmbH.

Comprising more than 50 leading industry suppliers, the exhibition showcased thousands of innovative laboratory products and welcomed more than 600 delegates representing the breadth of the scientific community, through its doors. As well as a unique opportunity to try out the latest laboratory equipment and meet the people behind brands such as GE Healthcare and Kimberly Clark, the event offered a series of seminars covering life sciences, research and analysis...

The Chartered Institute of Marketing has announced that Markes International (Llantrisant) has been selected as a finalist in two categories for the 2014 CANMOL: Wales Marketing Awards.

CANMOL, which is Welsh for ‘praise’, was set up in 2008 to celebrate and promote excellence in marketing in Wales, and is run by the Chartered Institute of Marketing. Markes’ entry focused on the launch of their Select-eV technology, and was shortlisted in two of the eight categories – ‘Construction, engineering, manufacturing’, and ‘Technology and energy’. Each of the three finalists in each category was assessed by at least eight judges, and...

Ocean Optics offers unique interactive tools and educational resources

Ocean Optics has launched a redesigned website at oceanoptics.com. The all new site design helps users more easily navigate through spectroscopy product and educational information with an interactive product selector, spectrometer range and resolution calculator, applications section, measurement techniques section, and a new search function that groups results by type. The biggest change to the site is the addition of two...

Dr Graham Rideal, CEO of calibration standards company Whitehouse Scientific, has completed a lecture tour of Europe, travelling in style and accompanied by the company’s ShapeSizer Image Analyser.

Visiting manufacturers who weave stainless steel cloth for sieves and filters, Dr Rideal demonstrated the ShapeSizer and showed its value in validating glass bead calibration testing of both plain and complex weaves. “The ShapeSizer is one of the most cost-effective and reliable particle metrology tools on the market and we have now extended its application to the NIST traceable calibration of both test sieves and filter apertures via the...